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The pottery of the Uploader will in future be one of the attractions of the old town of Jumilla and specifically the route for the First District Uploader leading up to the Castle.
In the section linking Cantererías with Acerica it is located the last potter oven preserved in the city and also is currently municipal property.
Jumilla City Council has begun work to recover and make it visitable.
In recent years he was the victim of vandalism, garbage dumping and damage caused by vegetation growing around without control.
Currently it was walled, making it impossible to access.
In a first action it has proceeded to clean the yard and roof, both the oven and the house cave that served as a workplace and storage.
It has also been part of the wall collapsed that tapiaba the courtyard in order to place a door.
In a next step the oven, which has placed him on its roof protection provisionally to prevent water stops flowing every time it rains will be restored.
Cave house also reformed, which will be equipped with electricity and repair the gates, which are still preserved even in very poor condition.
The exact date of its construction is unknown, but should be in the nineteenth century, keeping the style of the furnaces of the mid-sixteenth century.
It is known that in the late nineteenth century a family of potters are putting down roots in Jumilla, from Isso and surname Villena, which are installed in the Uploader, where quite possibly leased and then bought pottery.
Josefa Villena married Jose Martinez Jumillano Thomas that keeps the craft and tradition of the family of his wife, which would be worth the nickname 'The Cantarero', hence the pottery known as "the Uploader" or " the Cantarero ".
He and his son, Juan Martinez Villena, activity remained until the outbreak of the Civil War.
It is after the war stops the pottery work one hundred percent.
Grandson, Jose Martinez Sanchez, will sporadically some cooking, but more as a complement to the family economy and business.
What they were manufactured primarily what is called popular ceramic or enough: jars, pots, jugs, cocioles, jars, etc.
All this undecorated, except for a mask that made mold to paste pots.
In fact, at City Hall are exposed some pitchers that came out of that oven.
It is noteworthy that between the ceramic known pottery made this a stove (fornel) is collected in the same way Muslims, known as anafres medieval stoves and still used today in southern Morocco.
Another curious element, because it has asked its use is cociol, who was a container for disinfecting clothing waterborne ash (ash is a disinfectant) or water and distillate Barilla (s plant Family salicornias very abundant in Jumilla) from which a kind of liquor is obtained.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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